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Rhythmtober Day 11 prompt - Rhythm OC

Remember when I told you guys that I had a tapper fankid in mind?

Well here she is!

A few things about her:

Her name is [NAME PENDING] (what the heck do i name her). She got long, long legs, but her legs are actually shorter than the average tapper's legs. She also got her hair color from her dad. She's the first of her kind (human tapper hybrid), and will get bullied sometimes at school cause of this. (it's ok, her mom got her back!) Okay was her first word, as shown in the picture above. After this, she will have a brief phase where she screams ok at random people.

Hmmm… Githm…

*looks forlornly into the distance*

Githm… a portmanteau of the two words in her name, “Rhythm” and “Girl”… leads to quite the unusual, yet cute nickname for the character…

And it comes from a fanfic, you say? Perhaps a fanfic from premier website ArchiveOfOurOwn.org?

Hmm…

It sounds like… it could be something from the mind of a silly, yet slightly cringey 14 year old girl

…

I wouldn’t know anything about HER of course.

(Thank you everyone for the support on my rhythmtober posts!)

What exactly is rose? As in rose averse/rose favorable. I'm assuming it's just the platonic version of sex and romance favorable? However I've never seen those terms before so I'm not too sure.

*suspiciously eyes shipping bingo*

Anyway uhh… what do you think of bartag?

No reason, just curious…

Bar Guy x Protag: I LOVE BARTAG. THEY ARE THE MIDDLE AGED MAN SLOW BURN YAOI I WANT TO SEE IN THIS WORLD. I usually don’t like ships where the characters look too similar but I really don’t mind it here with how many other things I like about them as a pairing. In fact, them having similar burdens weighing over them makes me ship them more

I wouldn’t quite say they’re tragic but I do think they’ve both been through a lot. The Bar Guy has been made to feel like a burden for his size. And the Protag has been made to feel like barely anyone, even his own family, cares about him. They both have a huge amount of cynicism towards the world but not enough to where they’re nihilistic. I think they’d take comfort in complaining to each other rather than dragging each other down.

They both have their issues about drinking and smoking but not in the stereotypical addict way. I think they’d take comfort to use them as crutches to avoid/be emotionally vulnerable. They avoid it by drowning their sorrows. But also they both say what they really mean when drunk but if the other person they were talking to questions them about it they can just blame it on the alcohol. If they drank together I actually think they’d be more open and honest than sober? It’s the only part of their dynamic that’d I question the healthiness of.

For them actually getting together, I think it would take a really long time for either of them to make a move. They’d both assume the other is just looking for companionship and nothing more. Individually the Bar Guy would have his worries around the fact that Protag used to have a wife, ‘clearly he must be straight’, and once again feeling like he’s intruding in the other man’s space. The Protag would deal with figuring out why he wants this stranger to stay so badly, is this loneliness or love, and if he was allowed to feel love for Bar Guy at all. I think they would fall into place one day. After a couple drinks one of them says something a little too flirty, the other goes for it, and after a brief conversation there they are, together. No big event, no huge realization moment, maybe some long talks but they were already doing that.

YEEEEEEEESSSS!!!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That’s what I love about bartag so much!!!!!! They would be the slowest of slow burns and even when (after a long time 😭😭) both are aware of how they feel for the other, their cynicism would get in the way of just going for it.

“He probably wants me gone after this all ends.”

“He probably has a whole life he wants to return to.”

When in reality they both want nothing more than for the both of them to stay in the house together 😭😭

I like to think that in the beginning, Yesenin starts helping the homeowner around the house as a way to pass the time, and over time, the homeowner changes his habits to accommodate this. They also warm up to each other due to shared struggles and what not. Maybe after the homeowner gets shock from yet another dead body in his house, he goes to Yesenin to just… sit there and be with him. Maybe after Yesenin is dealing with too much thoughts, he puts his feelings into a poem and shares it with the homeowner.

I think something very special about Yesenin specifically in relation to the homeowner is that he’s the very first stranger he encounters. Overtime, the house gets filled with more and more people, yet the numbers whittle down just as fast. Some fall victim to visitors (and the homeowner at times), some get dragged away by FEMA, and some just straight up leave on their own accord. However, at the end of the day (or night) Yesenin will always be there. He stayed with you from the very beginning all the way to the end. I think it’s very beautiful that the first person the hermit, who usually wants nothing to do with strangers, opens his doors to is the one he ends up forming a deep connection with.

(Also part of this is because Yesenin’s just so… unlucky 😭😭. Bro is always THE first one to die. It took me a while to keep him in the house for just a week to get his achievement, so if the homeowner can keep him alive all the way until the basement, I say he deserves that tall skinny man fair and square 😭)

I’d imagine their relationship to slowly fall into what looks like an old married couple. They already do chores together. Yesenin could help the homeowner deal with the pale man and/or FEMA. Perhaps the homeowner, after a couple of weeks, offers Yesenin a spot on the bed (of course, totally platonically) so he can stretch his legs for once.

It takes them such a long time to confess to one another (might take years after the apocalypse ends) that when they do start dating (I guess?) that they’ve already gotten used to living together and virtually nothing changes. Idk, I don’t really view them as very romantic, they don’t really say “I love you” or go on dates that often. I do think they kiss and engage in… other activities, but just being with each other is just enough for them imo.

Dang I kinda wrote a whole essay uhhh…

A major

A minor rrrr

Emajor

E minor

G major

C major

lots of major chords

If you want to get better at remembering how to put your fingers, I suggest you start playing them one after the other. Just start switching chords quickly and you’ll find that your hands will eventually know how to play the chords as soon as you think of them

As for the actual chords, I suggest you learn d major (2nd fret 1st string 3rd fret 2nd string 2nd fret 3rd string) and d minor (1st fret 1st string 3rd fret 2nd string 2nd fret 3rd string). They sound really nice especially with A minor(rrrr) and G major and they can also help when you start learning moveable chords (don’t worry about that now though)

I feel like you should really just focus on just getting used to the feeling of the guitar. There’s a lot of songs you can play just with the chords you know, playing along to those might be easier than just playing chords at random now that i think about it…